Mary Shankman And Scott Allen's Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Throughout history, there’s always have been a shortage of leaders with proper leadership. In ancient societies, states stagnated, and some civilizations collapsed because of bad leadership. In contemporary society, there is an exponentially growing demand for leadership from all around the world. Researchers such as Mary Shankman and Scott Allen have encouraged people with new ways to educate oneself as a leader with proper leadership in their book Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. In Mary Shankman and Scott Allen’s Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, they explain how the foundation of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership is about knowing oneself and managing it and improve people. In this essay, I, like a typical college student, am going

The consciousness of self is one of the most important aspects of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. The textbook defines the consciousness of self as is about oneself. It elaborates, “Consciousness of self is all about you. Knowing who you are, what you stand for, and how your answers and actions can affect others are all components of consciousness of self” (25-26). In essence, understanding oneself is consciousness of self. It’s something one would assume one would know, but at the same time consciously very hard to define. For instance, breathing, it is something done unconsciously, and when conscious, people feel differently. The realization of the consciousness of self-enlighten one from the conventional view of oneself. In my case, after I read about consciousness of self, consciousness of self means change because I realized the potential that could reach in both professional and private life. The two consciousness of self’s category I feel the most need of improvement are Emotional in Self-perception and Flexibility. The self-perception is about knowing how I feel regularly. “Self-perception as the capacity

To be an authentic-self, it is important to have an honest self-understanding because without it one can’t determine authentic self. Therefore, having accurate self-understanding skills are crucial, “Honest self-understanding means that you celebrate and honor your strengths and honor your strengths and talents while acknowledging your limitations. Knowing who you mean accepting the good and bad of your personality, abilities, and ideas” (33). To have the proper examination of how one’s doing and improve, understanding one is the most important aspect of leadership. Improvement of lacking element will energize others because what one perceives could be different from reality. Leaders often overestimate one’s ability, such as how much stress one can handle, have followers suffer because of leader’s overestimation. Similarly, leaders who have the initiative to energize others. A leader without initiative can be devastating because initiative is directly related to achievement, “Initiative is that they have passion for what they are doing. In this respect, initiative links directly to achievement. Emotionally intelligent leaders know that they can make change happen” (70). The leaders should have the initiative to have passion for the task because the achievement from work comes from passion. Passionate leaders satisfy authentic self and energize others. As one